Editorial Commentary

Advice From Our Northern Friends

They want to make money by helping us make sense.

Tourists who get off the D.C. Metro subway stop closest to the Senate offices meet a barrage of advertising sponsored by a foreign country. But the tourists are not the intended audience. The foreign country isn't trying to promote its natural beauty, its culture, or its historic buildings.

Instead, the entire subway station is plastered with posters and banners promoting a particular economic interest of the foreign country. It...